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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

After musing on Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, and the Congress they helped create, Jonah Goldberg gives his listeners a tour de force on the Heritage Foundation, William F. Buckley Jr., and the new wave of antisemitism. Shownotes:—Grand Rapids live Remnant—Remnant with Yuval—Today’s piece on Heritage in The Dispatch—Last week’s G-File—Kevin Roberts original video—Heritage all-hands meeting—Jonah on J.D. Vance and “Heritage Americans”—A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.— ‘Bravery on the Cheap’ G-File—Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy—Jonah’s one piece in The Public Interest—Cliff Asness in Commentary—Jonah on the ‘Great Feminization’ piece—Thomas Sowell on middleman minorities The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.5	Oh, that is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch. Greetings, your listeners.
1:29.3	This is Jonah Goldberg.
1:33.4	Host of the Remnant podcast brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
1:38.0	Had a great time in Grand Rapids this week.
2:04.4	We did a live taping of the Remnant, and it was a lot of fun, and it was great to meet up with subscribers who said many, many, many, many, many, nice things about the dispatch, about the remnant, about even, to some extent, me, my dogs, even Steve Hayes, the whole team, as people know, I just,
2:10.8	I get physically uncomfortable hearing compliments, but it was still good to hear in retrospect,
2:16.8	even if it was made me feel awkward in the moment. I would tell you that the overwhelming,
2:20.8	overarching framing of why people value the dispatch. And to a lesser extent, I guess the remnant is it reminds them that they haven't gone
2:26.3	insane and that it doesn't have to be the way it is and that it shouldn't be the way it is
2:32.3	in our politics these days. And we want to do more
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